Vague text compression
Andrew Davison · ACM SIGACT News · 1993
A new approach to the "lossy" compression of text is described, based on the computational benefits of reading handwritten text, as opposed to text set in a more formal typographical style. Specifically, a new class of fonts, called vague fonts , are proposed which encode the vagueness of handwriting. Text written using a vague font can be compressed to a much greater degree than the same text represented in a conventional font.